My Tele bridge pickup has a little bit of noise but the neck pickup is dead quiet. Any ideas?
Sometimes it has turned out to be a bad solder point, mostly on the ground from the bridge pickup to the back of the Volume pot cover. Check all solder points and re-solder if the slightest bit in doubt. I suspect faulty soldering has such an impact because this pickup ground connection also serves to ground the bridge and strings, so any fault is more apparent than otherwise.Also a lot of Tele bridges are made of ‘Steel’ and that will unbalance the noise canacelling mechanism of the pickup. Bridge materials affect sound character so you may not want to change your steel bridge to brass and endure a small residual noise. Also see next question.
